Daily Maverick - Think climate change isn't your problem? It will be when you can't eat

Climate change is ravaging the world’s nutritional supplies, and in the very near future we’ll be looking at astronomical prices for staple foods. Which will lead to starvation, conflict, and hugely increased competition for resources. Can we really afford to let that happen?

Obesity, a global problem: Your views - Al Jazeera English

[2011] More than half a billion men and women are clinically obese, a report backed by the World Health organisation (WHO), says. The figures, released recently, are nearly double those of 1980, leading doctors to say that a "tsunami of obesity" is unfurling across the world.

Letters: Just 50 months to tackle climate change | Environment | The Guardian

There are around 50 months left before we cross a critical climate threshold. After that, it will no longer be "likely" that we will stay on the right side of a 2C temperature rise – a line Britain and the rest of the EU has sworn not to cross.

50 months to avoid climate disaster – and a change is in the air | Andrew Simms | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Monday 1 October marks the halfway point in a 100-month countdown to a game of climate roulette.
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The climate scientist Prof Kevin Anderson says it is too late for rich countries to "grow" their way out of the problem and must find a new way to run their economies. He says everyone, including climate scientists, must reduce their emissions and he commits to lowering his own.